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"He grounds the warship he walks on." »John Bracken on Captain Barney Kelly, who ran the USS Enterprise into the mud of San Francisco Bay in May 1983
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"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe." »Thomas Huxley
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"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones." »Bertrand Russell
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"Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones." »Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish"
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"No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature." »A.A. Milne
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"... and thereof do I repent: I only plucked an occasional flower when I might have gathered an ample harvest of fruit -- such are the just grounds for the regrets I have ..." »D. A. F. Sade, "Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man"
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"The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability." »Tom Lehrer
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"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hillswe shall never surrender." »Winston Churchill
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"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination." »Immanuel Kant
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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender." »Winston Churchill
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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." »Sir Winston Churchill, Speech, 4. June, 1940
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"In the age of knowledge and global socioeconomic exchange, goodwill and trade relations are far important to national prosperity and stability than land or military power. Socioeconomic systems that are built on exclusive ideologies, religious or ethnic purities are breeding grounds for extremism and will eventually lead to civil and international conflicts. Those countries must change or fail." »Med Jones
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